Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.

If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.